Año 1946, Alemania después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) llega a Hamburgo para reunirse con su esposo, Lewis (Jason Clarke). La ciudad está en ruinas destruida por los embates de la guerra y es pleno invierno, el frio se deja sentir hasta los huesos. El coronel británico recibe la misión de reconstruir la destruida ciudad. Al mudarse a su nueva casa, Lewis toma una inusual decisión: compartirán esta gran casa con sus antiguos propietarios, a los que se les había requisado su propiedad. Ellos son Stephen Lubert (Alexander Skarsgård), un viudo alemán y su atormentada hija. En esta atmósfera cargada de rencor, odio y venganza, la hostilidad y el dolor dan paso a la ardiente pasión y la traición.
Un introvertido niño checo de 9 años, superviviente del campo de concentración de Auschwitz, huye de un campo de refugiados en la Alemania de la postguerra, tratando de buscar a su madre. El chico es encontrado por un soldado americano que tratará de ayudar al niño a encontrarla... Film en tono semi-documental que supuso el debut del gran Montgomery Clift.
In occupied Berlin, a US Army Captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the US Congresswoman investigating her.
A young prosecutor in postwar West Germany investigates a massive conspiracy to cover up the Nazi pasts of prominent public figures.
Es la historia real de Hans en tres momentos (1945, 1957 y 1969) de su relación con Viktor, un asesino convicto: un amor carcelario, propiciado por las entradas y salidas de prisión de Hans a causa de la represión a la que fueron sometidas las personas homosexuales en la Alemania democrática de posguerra.
Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.
Con objeto de hacerse con un depósito de oro escondido durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, unos aventureros implicados en el caso deciden liberar de una prisión de máxima seguridad al criminal de guerra que conoce el paradero del tesoro.
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
A Nazi's fiancee helps an escaped U.S. soldier, then meets him in postwar Berlin.
A young American serviceman stationed in Germany after the fall of the Third Reich, jeopardises his future after falling in love with a German woman.
Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow. Director R. A. Stemmle doesn't have to strive for pathos: he merely places his gangly star amidst the ruins of a bombed-out Berlin, and the point is made for him. Filmed in 1948, Berliner Ballade was later released in the U.S. as The Berliner.
Documentary about Kurt Landauer, the long-time Jewish president of FC Bayern München, who led the club to its first German championship, was persecuted and forced out of office by the Nazis, and rebuilt the club after the war.
In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to the castrating sexuality of Marlene Dietrich in Die Blaue Engel. The program provides an introduction to Weimar cinema, with Buchka's essay narrated over the images from film clips of 1920s era German films.
This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich, and Heidelberg. Included are scenes of World War II destruction that lingered at the time.
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
A "What if?" alternative history sees Nazi Germany prevailing in the second World War. First the occupiers establish their power bases, before they find themselves under attack from the underground resistance.
In 1986, Ross McElwee (Sherman's March) and Marilyn Levine were making a film about the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall, when the imposing structure was still very much intact as the world’s most visible symbol of hardline Communism and Cold War lore. They thought they were making a documentary on the community of tourists, soldiers, and West Berliners who lived in the seemingly eternal presence of the graffiti emblazoned eyesore. But in 1989, as the original film neared completion, the Wall came down, and McElwee and Levine returned to Berlin, this time to capture the radically different atmosphere of the reunified city.